The Akinator (website)

[Ace Mercury]

Akinator, the Web Genius

Here's another one of those cool oracles which divine the character you're thinking of through yes/no questions. A Touhou message board I go to has successfully trained it for every single Touhou character, minor character, and fan character =/

It's even got more obscure characters (it got Chester Cheetah, Tron Bonne, Colonel Sanders, Oppenheimer, etc.). I managed to slip a few by him (Kogepan was one of them, though it was on the "was it this character?" list), but that's because it limits to 20 questions. Every now and then it really pegs it and you can tell (I was thinking of Souseiseki, and I realized it was on to me when it asked "is your character a doll?"). Sometimes the questions are kind of silly. Sometimes, the characters are silly ("The one nothing is known about", "The Yes Pressing Person", "Someone who kept clicking on No to see what happens").

Every now and then, though, it ****ing floors me how it knows.

[I am nobody]

RL people I've done:
FDR (yes)
Bush (yes)
Mao (yes)
Lou Shaoqi (no) [I have no idea how it missed him and got Lin Biao, but it did]
Zhou en-Lai (yes)
Lin Biao (yes)

Non-RL that I just did:
Most of the Skies of Arcadia cast. Missed everyone that wasn't a main character. It got cocky and guessed at 15 when I was doing Cupil. Failed miserably.
Error (AoL) No, not Phoenix Wright
Trinexx - Not Bowser. (first to do this one.)
O'Brien (1984) - Who is Mark Darcay? Worst he's done on this one.
Winston (1984) - Yes. Get this, fail hard on O'Brien. Such a strange game.
Beetle (WW) - Not Allejo. Considering he took until 16 to ask the video game question, this was doomed.

[CaptHayfever]

I just did Coca-Cola. Akinator guessed "iPod" even though I said it's not connected to apples.

And remember, "I'm-a Coca-Cola, number one!"

[X-3]

did 3 m+h characters, got them all, more to follow

[Maximum Spider]

I just thought of Guy from Final Fight/Street Fighter Alpha.

He guessed Dan.

Wow.....

Kamen Rider was next on my mind.

He guessed Tuxedo Mask.

So close, yet so far.

I tried Kamen Rider again.

He got it that time.

I think answering no to, "Is your character from japanese animation is what did it for him.

[Bomby]

Didn't I post this like a month ago?

[Ace Mercury]

Yes, but not in this forum.

[Kargath]

Probabilistic expert systems are fun.

[I am nobody]

Didn't I post this like a month ago?

It wouldn't be mindless if Ace thought about whether it had been posted or not. :p

[Speed]

Me and a few of my friends have been training him for pretty much every Tales of and Fire Emblem character.

He also got all the KoF characters I tried.

[Jesus]

I was impressed through the most obscure questions that he got "pee wee herman" correct.


Question Answer given Answer expected
Is your character real? Yes Yes
Is your character a female? No No
Is your character a singer? No No
Is your character a politician? No No
Is your character an actor? Yes Yes
Is your character American ? Yes Yes
Is your character currently more than 50 years old? Don't know No
Is your character a comical actor? Yes Yes
Is your character white? Yes Yes
Is your character from a TV series? Yes Yes
Does your character have a great artistic skill? No No
Does the name of your character appear in the title of a TV series? Yes Yes
Is your character internationally famous? Don't know Probably
Does your character wear glasses? No No
Is your character married in a TV series? No No
Is your character French? No No
Has your character dicovered something? Don't know No
Is your character linked with children? Yes Yes
Is your character a scientist? No No
Does your character go to school? No No


He also got Steve Urkel.

Is your character real? Yes No
Is your character a woman ? No No
Is your character a singer, or does he work with a singer (as a songwriter, producer, musician...)? No No
Is your character a politician? No No
Is your character an actor? Yes Yes
Is your character American ? Yes Yes
Is your character currently more than 50 years old? No No
Does your character have children? No No
Is your character from a TV series? Yes Yes
Does your character play the role of a student? Yes Yes
Is your character blond? No No
Does your character play in 'The O.C'? No No
Does your character want to get married? Don't know ?
Is your character a Liverpool supporter? No ?
Is your character a comical actor? Yes Yes
Is your character white? No No
Is your character fat? No No
Does your character often bite people? No ?
Does your character use his fingers as a weapon? Probably not ?
Does the name of your character appear in the title of a TV series? No No

[Metal Man]

Yeah, this system works mostly on picking up through thousands of answers who's who and thus figuring out anything he hasn't seen yet over time.

So only really obscure, fanless characters can get through. Or very vague ones.